Excerpted from CBS News: Vigilantes belonging to a “self-defense” movement took over another town in the Mexican state of Michoacan Saturday amid confrontations that left two people dead and three wounded.
State prosecutor’s spokeswoman Magdalena Guzman said the clash took place in a hamlet near the town of Tancitaro, where “self-defense” patrol members occupied the town hall and main square in a bid to kick out the western state’s dominant Knights Templar drug cartel. Continue reading “Civilian Militia Captures Towns From Mexican Drug Cartel”